SWIFTWATER, Pa., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY ), announced today that it has shipped the first doses of the 2009-2010 formulation of Fluzone((R)), Influenza Virus Vaccine. Fluzone vaccine is indi...

NEW YORK, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The notice process has begun in a pending class action against MetLife. The class action involves MetLife's April 2000 conversion from a mutual insurance company to a stock company. The nationwide class action certified by the Federal Court in New York i...

(WASHINGTON, July 13, 2009) Alejandro Gutierrez, MD, is the third recipient of the ASH-AMFDP grant, an award designed to help increase the number of underrepresented minority scholars in the field of hematology, and will begin his research into the pathogenesis of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leuke...

DEARBORN, Mich., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- It's okay to vote early and vote often ... at least when the voting helps out a good cause.
Starting today, and running through August 14, the public is invited to visit www.jdrf.org/ford , view more than 200 paint scheme designs and vote ...

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM), June 28-30 in Chicago, convenes more than 2300 researchers, policymakers and practitioners to discuss research addressing the critical challenges confronting the nation's health care delivery system, including the ways health services research can infor...

AURORA, Ontario, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Helix BioPharma Corp. (TSX, FSE: HBP; OTCQX: HXBPF) announced today that it has commenced trading in the U.S. on the OTCQX International Market under the ticker symbol HXBPF. Investors can find real-time quotes, disclosure and financial informati...

Thirty-five leading organizations from the clinical research community have pledged support for new initiative
WASHINGTON, June 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors tha...

The Male Circumcision Partnership expands access to proven HIV prevention intervention
WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a significant move from research on male circumcision to full-scale implementation, the Male Circumcision Partnership is launching a massive scale-up of ...

Bracco's Cardiogen-82(R) Enables Cardiologists to Better Detect
Cardiovascular Disease
OTTAWA, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MDS Nordion, a leading provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals, today announced that it has commenced the manufacture of CardioGen-82(R) (Rub...

ATLANTA, June 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., today became the 16th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). He was named director of CDC by the White House an...

National Technical Systems Inc (NTS) has begun ZigBee testing for RF4CE platforms. The new RF4CE test program will verify functionality and interoperability of the ZigBee RF4CE across multiple vendors, with product-level certification testing soon to follow. Testing of the specification will all...

Novel H1N1 Influenza A Response among Key Conference Components
BUFFALO, N.Y., June 5, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) 2009 Annual Conference will be held June 7-11 at the Buffalo-Niagara Convention Center in Buffalo, New York. This year...

Scientific Experts Gather to Set New Direction and Collaboration
BALTIMORE, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The First International Hyperphagia Conference opens this week in Baltimore, MD with the anticipated outcome to set new direction for solving hunger amid a global obesity epidemic. Th...

WASHINGTON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington, D.C. office of Porter Novelli has been selected by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), of the National Institutes of Health, to expand and enhance its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) awareness campaign.
"In 1...

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- TOPICA Pharmaceuticals today announced the enrollment of patients in a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating luliconazole for the treatment of tinea pedis (athlete's foot). Luliconazole, the company's lead product candidate, is the one of the most potent an...

Communities across the Country Join the Observance in Support of Building the Foundation for a Healthy America
WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Public Health Association (APHA) today kicks off National Public Health Week (NPHW) 2009, themed Building the Foundation ...

Latest Solution Provides Physicians with a Fast and Efficient Way to Query Their Patient Databases to Determine Potential Candidates for Clinical Studies and Automation and Elimination of Redundant Data Entry During Clinical Studies
CARROLLTON, Ga., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenway...

A new study indicates that some aspects of peoples' cognitive skills such as the ability to make rapid comparisons, remember unrelated information and detect relationships peak at about the age of 22, and then begin a slow decline starting around age 27.
"This research suggests that some aspe...

CULVER CITY, Calif., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In years past, image processing and OCR software company Card Scanning Solutions (CSSN) relied on third-party distributors to serve members of the medical industry who ordered items from the company's MedicScan(R) and ScanShell(R) ( http://www.medicsca...

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR ) announced today that the first patients have been dosed in a Phase 1 dose-escalation study of NKTR-105, a novel PEGylated form of docetaxel. The Phase 1 study will assess the safety, pharmacokinetics and a...

BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthTransaction Network(R) has begun operations with the first national, electronic healthcare transaction network in the United States. The long-awaited program, started by electronic-transaction entrepreneur Joseph Wolfson, came to life last week with th...

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- UpSpring Baby (TM) today announced that its Milkscreen(TM) home test for alcohol in breast milk is now available for purchase over-the-counter at over 6,000 Walgreens drugstores across the U.S. Walgreens is the nation's largest drugstore chain and the first ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- AGA Medical Corporation (AGA) today
announced that, following its previously announced favorable patent
infringement final ruling by the German court of appeals over Occlutech GmbH
of Jena, Germany (Occlutech), it has calculated and notified Occlutech of th...

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hard to Treat Diseases (HTDS) http://www.htdsmedical.com/ the company is pleased to announce that having received clearances from its Chief Project Scientist, Director, R&D, Andrea Zecevic as a viable project for HTDS to merge with Mellow Hop...

First public briefing for executives, economists, government leaders, and the press to be held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 22, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC
"An informative must-read for anyone interested in taking corporate health care to the next level by bette...

Effort will track development of 100,000 kids from birth to age 21
FRIDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Recruiting has started for a large-scale federal study that aims to track tens of thousands of children from before birth to age 21. The study is aimed at understanding of how genes ...

The National Institutes of Health announced today that the National Children's Study will begin recruiting volunteers to take part in its comprehensive study of how genes and the environment interact to affect children's health. At a briefing, NIH officials announced that the first phase of recru...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Institutes of Health announced today that the National Children's Study will begin recruiting volunteers to take part in its comprehensive study of how genes and the environment interact to affect children's health. At a brie...

WHITBY, Ontario, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Two words strike fear in the hearts of men and those who love them: prostate cancer. Matthew E. McLaren lived through the shock of that diagnosis, suffered the grief and anger that followed and then turned his medical condition into the opportunity of a life...

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